Today is Darcy’s birthday. Age one seems like a seismic marker – a move out of babyhood. Of course people tell us that adulthood comes in a blink – but I am always surprised how the time flies. I see the signs passing. Darcy not only woofs at dogs, but now knows to bah at […]

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I grow a beard every winter. This is partly because the cold weather (with a scrawny body hypothermia is never that far away). Plus it convinces folks they did hire an adult as pastor. And this week, though the weather is still in the 60’s, my face started the growth process. Already my mirror image […]

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Yesterday I spilled coffee on my keyboard. Thankfully not my laptop’s keyboard – I attach a full keyboard – and this keyboard lay directly in the splash zone. I flipped it over and let the coffee run out. Then tissue dried the keys. Last I turned on my desk fan for a final dry. Amazingly […]

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“Between the trains going by and people going west and coming back and highways going through, there’s a sense of everyone wanting to be elsewhere.” ~ Dan Maginn quoted in the KC Star Amid the concrete and steal of downtown. Atop a six-story garage filled with cars, grows a field of prairie grass. There rests […]

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This morning I got up early. I needed to be at the hospital to pray before a surgery. I also woke Meg up, since she was teaching PDO, and we went through our sleepy eyed routine. Mumbling. After getting dressed, I closed my door and walked down the dark hall. As is all too common […]

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